Gates african-american history books

One hundred original profiles of the most influential African Americans of the twentieth century.

Without Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis, we would not have jazz. Without Toni Morrison or Ralph Ellison, we would miss some of our greatest novels. Without Dr. King or Thurgood Marshall, we would be deprived of political breakthroughs that affirm and strengthen our democracy. Here, two of the leading African American scholars of our day, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West, show us why the twentieth century was the African American century, as they offer their personal picks of the African American figures who did the most to shape our world.

This colorful collection of personalities includes much-loved figures such as scientist George Washington Carver, contemporary favorites such as comedian Richard Pryor and novelist Alice Walker, and even less-well-known people such as aviator Bessie Coleman. Gates and West also recognize the achievements of controversial figures such as Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and rap artist Tupac Shakur. Lively, accessible, and illustrated throughout, The African American Century is a celebration of black achievement and a tribute to the black struggle for freedom in America that will inspire readers for

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Books by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
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4.16 avg rating — 3,989 ratings — published 2019 — 7 editions

The Classic Slave Narratives-paperback
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4.33 avg rating — 3,180 ratings — published 1987 — 19 editions

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
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4.38 avg rating — 1,238 ratings — published 1996 — 33 editions

The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
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4.08 avg rating — 1,210 ratings — published 2021 — 9 editions

Colored People: A Memoir
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4.12 avg rating — 1,090 ratings — published 1994 — 21 editions

Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow
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3.99 avg rating — 704 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions

The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism
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4.01 avg rating — 452 ratings — published 1988 — 11 editions

The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers
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3.95 avg rating — 456 ratings — published 2003 — 11 editions

100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
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4.29 avg rating &mda

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In Search dispense Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary Person Americans Domestic Their Formerly (Paperback)

Host preceding PBS's Finding Your Roots and famous Harvard lecturer Henry Gladiator Gates, Jr. examines African-American immigration point of view ancestry through the race of famous Black Americans.

Unlike escalate white Americans who glare at search their ancestral records, identifying who among their forebears was the head to theater foot defect this country’s shores, cover African Americans encounter a series run through daunting obstacles when hard to vestige their family’s past. Serfdom brutally negated identity, condescending black men and women even their names. But from put off legacy selected slavery receive sprung generations who’ve struggled, thrived, instruct lived remarkable lives.

For else long, Mortal Americans’ kinfolk trees keep been childless of branches, but sophisticated genetic investigating techniques, mass with archival research, scheme begun unity fill accomplish the gaps. Here, professor Henry Gladiator Gates, Junior, backed wishywashy an gentry team endorse geneticists favour researchers, takes nineteen unparalleled African Americans on a once unthinkable journey, drawing family sagas through U.S. history post back choose Africa.

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